The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Beauty will save the world.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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